Unreal Engine 5 texture corruption issue

Posted by admin on November 24, 2022

Now is 2022 and Unreal Engine 5.1 has finally relesed. But it still can be funky. You work on your scene and all of a sudden, you get this.

Unreal Engine 5.1 texture corruption issue

If you go to the problematic material you will see it.

Unreal Engine 5.1 PBR materials got corrupted

You can see it is the texture. Let's open the texture.

Unreal Engine 5.1 texture corruption issue - texture corruption closer look

But if we zoom to 100% the problem is not present there.

Unreal Engine 5.1 texture corruption issue - texture in 100 zoom no issue

If we check the unreal engine forum, we would see that it happened to many people. It seems to be a bug in "streaming textures" and hopefully, it will be fixed soon. It seems to affect only the editor and is not present in the packaged games. The temporal solution could be just disabling the texture streaming.